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Climbing cost of state worker benefits spared from budget cuts

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Even as state leaders cut back on education and hike taxes and fees on residents, there's one area they won't touch: state employee benefits. Florida's 127,000 state workers still enjoy free or inexpensive health care, rich retirement benefits and perks, such as free college tuition and ready access to financial planners.

Women's Golden Gloves National Championships

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:38:48 -0400

Former Dolphin Cecil Collins still living with his mistakes

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:36:00 -0400

One-time runningback has three years left in prison sentence

Red: "What do you really want to know? Am I sorry for what I did?"

You Asked For It recipe: Giorgio's Hummus

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400

This slightly spicy dip/spread is habit forming. Delicious with pita chips, all manner of crackers and/or crudite.

Broward schools have record number of substitute teachers -- 66% increase in one year

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:41:00 -0400

It's often viewed as the kind of job that anyone with an associate's degree could fall back on in a pinch.

This story will make you hope and pray you don't get sick

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Dick Turrill was too young to die and too old to save.

Florida looking to reel in the ultimate fishing thrill -- shore-based shark fishing

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Conservationists, municipalities mount campaign against shark fishing

A row of eight fishing rods stands along the ocean in Delray Beach, sturdily anchored in the sand with plastic pipes. Lightning flashes in the night sky. A reel starts creaking.

State workers keep generous perks despite budget cuts

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Even as state leaders cut back on education and increase taxes and fees on residents, there's one area they won't touch: state employee benefits.

More cool places to ice skate in South Florida

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Incredible Ice opens expansion, others plan to grow also

While temperatures continue to soar this summer, one of the coolest places in South Florida is about to get even cooler.

Broward's legal eagle Shannon Bream soars on Fox News Channel

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Shannon Bream has given her family a lot of reasons to be proud. She earned a law degree at Florida State. She was a practicing attorney. She has been a reporter/anchor at TV stations in Tampa, Charlotte and Washington, D.C.